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Chapter 13 Mirroring 107
CHAPTER 13
Mirroring
This chapter discusses the Mirror setup screens.
13.1 Overview
Port mirroring allows you to copy a traffic flow to a mirror port (the port you copy the traffic
to) in order that you can examine the traffic from the mirror port without interference.
13.2 Port Mirroring Setup
Click Advanced Application, Mirroring in the navigation panel to display the Mirroring
screen. Use this screen to select a mirror port and specify the traffic flow to be copied to the
mirror port.
Figure 42 Mirroring
The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 25 Mirroring
LABEL DESCRIPTION
Active Select this check box to activate port mirroring on the switch. Clear this check box to
disable the feature.
Monitor
Port
The monitor port is the port you copy the traffic to in order to examine it in more detail
without interfering with the traffic flow on the original port(s). Select a port from the drop-
down list box.
Direction Specify the direction of the traffic to mirror by selecting from the drop-down list box.
Choices are Egress (outgoing), Ingress (incoming) and Both.
Mirrored
Port
Select a port from the drop-down list box. Select this option to mirror the traffic on a port.